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According to techworld.com.au , two unnamed power companies in the US were infected when malware-infested USB drives were connected to corporate computers. The recommendation put forth was to adopt new USB guidelines, "including the cleaning of a...

Cyber criminals have attempted to infiltrate a Dutch chemical company by "losing" USB sticks infected with malware in the company's parking lot. Gives a totally different spin to the term "computer trojan horse" and shows how BYOD...

The big news tonight, in Korea, was that key technologies related to Samsung and LG's AMOLED displays were smuggled out by employees of an Israeli subsidiary in Korea. How did these intrepid yet arrested men manage to do this? With a 4 GB USB memory...

A staff member at Victoria House Children's Centre in Barnstaple, UK breached protocol (and data security laws) when a USB flashdrive was stolen from her. Obviously, the use of drive encryption like AlertBoot would have prevented the breach from ever...

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council has been reprimanded by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for the loss of a USB drive. The device contained personal information and was not guarded with data encryption software like AlertBoot...

The demise of the CD has been long predicted. After all, it's a nearly 40-year technology, ancient by any technological standards. However, I was one of those people who didn't quite believe that it was dead. Until today, that is, when I read...